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Definitely. I think the appeal to some isn't GenAI per se but image-to-image generation like "make this item look like a talented photographer shot it".

But I can't imagine that your conversion wouldn't benefit by showing actual imperfect photos of your products, especially when you run a platform with 1k new listings per month. I'm personally turned off by something that looks like 3D, especially when all the different colour variations look the exact same.

It's not great as a Mullvad user: YouTube constantly complains and also shadowbans some of my livestreaming functionality, and my X account has now been flagged as a bot, which requires me to download the app and verify myself in ways that they won't explain. And X is practically useless without a user, much like Instagram. TikTok also shadowbans you with reduced functionality.

Twitch and Discord meanwhile feel remarkably unaffected compared to their counterparts.

VPNs in the aftermath of FireSheep[1] before we got proper HTTPS, but it's not likely to be the ban or censorship circumvention tool we think they are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

Swedish politics aside(!), I'd love to have other VPN services as exit points for Tailscale. More choice is good, and hopefully that becomes an option one day.

People also generally use Violentmonkey (https://violentmonkey.github.io) instead nowadays.

Well this almost seems to be to good to be true. :)

I assume this is going to make maintaining SubtitleEdit a lot easier from now on, too: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/.

Anyone know a good Windows app that's just a window that transcribes - and translates - whatever goes through your output device, and not the microphone like most apps do?

It got particularly bad with SPACs in the last few years.

There's also the weird scenario of a reporting bias where instead of admitting to a bunch of vulnerabilities, you can frame it as "look at how useful AI is".

We even have companies implementing solutions for ffmpeg vulnerabilities themselves instead of just handing them the vulns to fix themselves.

It's very possible the tide reverses if it's not in people's interest to advocate for AI anymore, so we better not get too used to it just in case.

It's nice that we currently have an alignment of AI advocacy and infosec, though. Maybe Microsoft can even point their AI to their questionable UX and UI practices next.

I've always loved Samsung Magician (for drives), whose Windows installer always asks something to the effect of "Do you happen to live in Brazil or the EU by any chance?"

The acoustics of homes with clean walls and floors can also be absolutely miserable.

Some small dining rooms amplify all the worst noises and make it terrible to be in, drains your mental battery like few other things.

In my experience, every good paid iOS app eventually gets copied by someone who releases the clone for free; with games, this was basically a given even eons ago. That being said, a lot of people have been bitten by a paid app that transitioned to a subscription-based app. It's happened to more of my apps than I can count; thank goodness for some grandfathering.

I guess there's less frustration about sunk cost with a subscriptions, but we're also used to so many dark UX patterns that any subscription seems sinister. And I really hate all the apps mandating a trial you have to cancel to avoid getting charged, just to try a damn app.

And lately, we've also seen AI companies demonstrating how fluid a subscription "plan" really is, with features coming and going, and the way credits are counted and spent being unreliable.

If the UX got streamlined, I'd probably feel better about it. Maybe the problem isn't a lack of money, but that all our trust has been spent at this point.

Children aside, this is just an absurd amount of data to hand over.

At least people will realize that age verification is something everyone will have to do to prove they're >16 - not just something <=16yo's will run into.

What's the deal with all the new accounts posting on this submission?

The year is 2030. Content's been blocked by age verification and overreach, but the ads still remain.

A lot of the iPhone design decisions have generally had the nature of something I didn't like that some market research must have shown to be in demand. And so the iPhones have kept getting bigger, even though I've held on to my 4, 5S, and SE's for dear life.

People seem to want them, so Apple end up selling them. We're probably in the minority, and I can't fault Apple for not turning down the money.

Although I do wonder how the hell cases and screen protectors work for foldables.

Even worse when you're on Windows. What's the point of the cloud if it only works halfway decently on Mac.

Makes me feel like an idiot for doing something as outlandish as paying artists for their music.

People might be more prone to referring to "submarines" on HN: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.

The scale of deepfakes in Korea is horrifying: https://www.securityhero.io/state-of-deepfakes/#targeted-ind....

And in 2024, someone made a viral map with reports of deepfakes in schools: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20240830/dee....

It's very similar to age verification where there's a genuinely horrible problem that we're getting a terrible solution to by people who seemingly don't understand the internet. And the finger on the monkey's paw curls.

Intel's Arc dGPUs were really compelling for dedicated AV1 encode and decode, especially the small form factor of some cards. You could even fit it as a secondary card in a PC dedicated to recording and encode workflows for OBS.

Hope we get a similar option with future lineups that support AV2, especially given how popular video creation and streaming are now.

That's basically C2PA: https://c2pa.org.

I'm not super optimistic about it, and last I saw, Apple wasn't a part of it either.

As tired as I am of the lack of improvement in Dropbox and the most of my nag-mails being warnings about my inactive Dropbox storage reaching "dangerous lows", I can't help be frustrated at how much the equivalent virtual drives from Apple and Microsoft suck, even today.

Thought I'd submit this from a few days ago since some people who didn't update are seeing "John Sim" admin users being added.

Make sure to keep your UniFi up to date folks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1tnygst/super_adm...

https://community.ui.com/releases/Security-Advisory-Bulletin...

Everyone's tired of hearing about Kagi, and the good news is that they have a free trial now so you can just see for yourself instead of reading comments after comments about it: https://kagi.com/signup?plan_id=trial.

Chat Control refuses to die.

The Switch 2 also released right in the midst of the tariff mayhem, Nintendo really couldn't catch a break with this generation.

I wonder when things get so bad that we end up filtering content made by accounts created before the release of ChatGPT.

GitHub too for their releases; you just add /atom to get the feed, which works great.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800166.

Looking forward to putting every apology statement into this - although many of them tend to require OCR for being posted as images or screenshots.

Heck of a Patch Tuesday.

One of the decidedly eerier parts of this story as you keep reading are all the gaps between what people are saying about Altman, and what they clearly want to say about Altman but can't.